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Mae West [1893-1980] American

Rank: 11
Actress

Mary Jane "Mae" West was an American actress, singer, playwright, screenwriter, comedian, and sex symbol whose entertainment career spanned seven decades.

Best, Funny, Good, Marriage, Men, Women, Art, Chance, Dating, Diet, Failure, Great, Home, Romantic, Space, Success, Work

Quote	Tags	Rank
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.	Great, Marriage	101
When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.	Good	102
Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.	Space	103
Sex is emotion in motion.		104
Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.	Dating	105
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.	Funny	106
I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.	Funny	107
If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.		108
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.		109
Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.		110
It's not what I do, but the way I do it. It's not what I say, but the way I say it.		111
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.	Diet	112
An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.		113
One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.	Work	114
I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.		115
Look your best - who said love is blind?	Best	116
I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.		117
It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.		118
I believe that it's better to be looked over than it is to be overlooked.		119
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.		120
It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.		121
A man's kiss is his signature.	Romantic	122
A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.	Women	123
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.		124
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.		125
I never loved another person the way I loved myself.		126
Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.		201
It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.		202
Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.		203
I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.		204
Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.		205
Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.		206
Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.	Home	207
Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.		208
Too much of a good thing can be taxing.	Good	209
The best way to hold a man is in your arms.	Best	210
Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.	Art	211
I speak two languages, Body and English.		212
A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.		213
Personally, I like two types of men - domestic and foreign.		214
I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.		215
Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.		216
Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else.		217
Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success.	Success	218
A hard man is good to find.		219
I've been things and seen places.		220
When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.		221
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.	Chance	222
Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.		223
A man in the house is worth two in the street.		224
I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.		225
I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?	Men	226
A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.		301
A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love.		302
When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.		303
I've been in more laps than a napkin.		304
His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.		305
He who hesitates is a damned fool.		306
I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.		307
She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.		308
To err is human, but it feels divine.	Failure	309
He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.	Marriage	310
Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.		311
It takes two to get one in trouble.		312
Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.		313
Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.		314
Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.		315
I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.		316
I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.	Men	317
When women go wrong, men go right after them.	Women	318
Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.		319
It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.		320
Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.		321
The score never interested me, only the game.		322
I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.		323
I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.		324
Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.		325
I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway.		326

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